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  1. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Just no. Marxism is fundamentally broken and has led to the death of more people than any other philosophy. Even ones that have had 10x the life.

    Capitalism remains the best we've got. Marxism's key and unfixable flaw is unhealthy concentration of power.

    Marx didn't understand capitalism and criticized a straw man. He should have spent more time reading Adam Smith. The world would be a better place.

  2. Re: The Taste must have been fired also on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Real cream never had the shelf life.

    I was whipped sweetened lard, then it became whipped sweetened hydrogenated vegetable oil.

  3. Re:Tyson is a very smart man on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    If only he was as smart as Paris Hilton.

  4. Re: Capitalism on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No. You just lost a ton of money temporarily killing off your competition.

    As soon as you try and turn a profit, they will be right back.

  5. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    A sociologist with data? Nonsense. He has a vague feeling. He'll jin up data later.

  6. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    For definitions of 'unerring' equal to 'wrong in every way'.

    According to Marx capitalism was going to eat itself. No sign yet. Profits were supposed to drop to 0 due to excessive competition. Return on capital remains healthy.

    Marx didn't understand capitalism, not any better than your average Sanders supporter, which is to say 'not at all'. He was criticizing a straw man.

  7. Re:Evolution vs selective breeding on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nice tits is a desirable trait. Doesn't mean I'm practicing Eugenics when I chase the tits owner/operater.

    Eugenics practiced by society isn't bad just because the traits being bred for were wrong. It was bad because it put too much power in the hands of government, which can't be trusted.

    Even if their were an absolute genetic ideal, it would still be a bad idea to give government that much power. They will run with it.

  8. Re:What goes around, might comer around... on Oracle Asks Judge To Throw Out Java/Google Verdict...Again (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle helped itself to IBM's 'structured query language' API many decades ago.

  9. Re:Posting jobs is so 2000 on Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    What?

    Link?

    I'm EU work eligible. Dual citizen...what kind of beer?

    I'll find my own minge. 'Target rich' environments are good. Do they get free beer as well?

    /.ers want to know.

  10. Re:You Can Be Let Go In Texas Anytime on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    That would be hotdogs. No I don't eat that crap. You likely do.

  11. Re:She should admit she's a fraud on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Marketers always 'over promise'. The rest of the company has to be setup to control them. Asking them to not lie, is like asking a bird not to fly. You'd hope they would know they were lying, but to pull off a convincing lie you have to believe...like you say a little schizo.

    It's ultimately why tech companies fail, more or less, when marketing takes over the CEO role. They turn into marketing companies, in some cases that reflects the reality that they are now making commodity stuff. In others it's just stupidity, premature market 'maturity'.

  12. Re:You Can Be Let Go In Texas Anytime on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    You're not carnivor enough. Why don't you become a vegan, you non fish head eating pansy? ;-)

    Next you'll balk at sea cucumber or goat!

    Sea cucumber isn't great, tastes like the sauce it was cooked in. But chinks (anybody got a more specific ethnic slur for cantonese?) think it's gourmet. Would not pay price again.

    Goat is like the best lamb you've ever eaten.

  13. Re: loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to burn a bridge, the time to do it is before you cross it, or at worst very shortly after.

    If the employment was long enough that you will have to list it on your resume, don't burn it. If you spot the hellhole in your first week or during interviews, burn away.

  14. Re:loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    That's a good argument for not living in small job markets.

  15. Re: loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    'No call, no show'.

    If you're working a job where you have to be there every single day, they will generally fire you for one.

  16. Re: I always quit without notice on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    When your paycheck bounces, it's time to walk out a server or two. Not just quit.

    First machine to go should be the one that's recording the security cameras.

  17. Re:She should admit she's a fraud on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Competent marketers first have to believe their own bullshit, if only for a second.

  18. Re:Ask yourself this question on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize why Brexit polling was so wrong?

    People that normally don't vote, did. If that happens in the presidential election all bets are off.

    Obama basically won on turnout, Trump can too.

  19. Re:Normally I'm pro regulation on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realize that 'chocolate' is not an actual addiction? It's just a figure of speech.

    I can quit anytime I want...

  20. so that is funny

    You slay you.

    Somebody should.

  21. He needs to be caught with a rentboy (paying the rentboy to pound his ass). Much better than assassination.

  22. Re:You Can Be Let Go In Texas Anytime on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    It's delicious. The cheek meat on a fish head is the best meat on the entire fish.

    Hog Jowls are great too.

  23. Re:Other way around? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    The reasons you are leaving are never only money. Money won't fix them.

    Also when you accept the counter consider the next steps. There are only two options:
    1. Management is pissed about shot term plans you are fucking. They will keep you only until they can hire a replacement, then fire you, likely for cause as they will have all the time they need to fake it up.
    2. You are actually needed, long term. You will not get another raise without an offer on the table for the foreseeable future.

    More basically, the fact they are willing to counter tells you that they have long considered you a bargain but were unwilling to pay you what you were worth. Fuck them, right in the ear. Fuck their schedule too, right in the accounts receivable.

    Finally: If you want money you need to get it coming in the door. For you stay at a company, all raises will be seen in scale to your _original_ starting salary. If you and a new coworker are getting the same money, but you already doubled your pay there, the new coworker will always get better 'default raises'.

  24. Re:Do Whatever You Can Afford on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Not fucking over you co-workers is about the only reason to actually give notice. (excepting an unusually good employer.)

    But also consider taking the good co-workers with you AND giving 0 days notice, that's the most fun.

  25. Re:Other way around? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right choice.

    Never accept a counteroffer. _Never_.